skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Where I live in the US earliest available specialist I was seeking (nothing too special) was months away.

How far were you willing to travel? In my local smaller city a skin cancer specialist was also unavailable for several weeks but I was able to take a two hour trip to the Mayo Clinic and got in there 2 days later with a referral.

In the UK it’s controlled at a a national level and you can’t travel two hours with an overnight stay to fix it like you can in the US.

Separately from specialists, urgent care facilities have a very high density here so immediate things can be addressed quite quickly.

>having healthcare universal wouldn’t necessary mean long wait times.

I have yet to see a system where that’s true. A friend got pneumonia in Canada and had to wait 14 hours in the ER before being diagnosed and given antibiotics.

I don’t think you can get all 3 of cheap, good, and fast. That adage applies to everything else in the world.
There is no getting ready according to this line of narrative. It’s bigger than individuals and it’s a matter of destiny.
There isn't a simple functional causal relationship between interest rates, inflation and currency rates.

And in fact, I think you have it exactly backwards in this case.

Many countries have dollarized their economies - replacing a local currency supported by high interest rates with the US dollar which has even lower interest rate than EUR - as a tool to tame inflation or kill hyper-inflation. Other - small non-EU countries have adopted the Euro for the same reason.

And with the same result - a massive fall in inflation.

This isn't just theory, this has been observed to work over and over again.
I like, and want to use Bluesky, but I mostly use socials to share my content and engagement is not comparable - I may get 200 "likes" on Twitter and 7 on Bluesky, for example. So while I would like to stop using Twitter, it has no alternative for me, currently.
> We can't arrest them before they do anything violent

Why not? Using drugs is illegal.
Hertz continues EV purge, asks renters if they want to buy instead of return
>while your experience might be tolerable that in no way reflects the realities for people at large.

Not sure what you mean by “at large” but it certainly reflects the reality for the majority of people. That’s why it fails to garner political support to disrupt.
> This is completely irrelevant, as there's no evidence that the US uses its state intelligence apparatus to engage in industrial espionage

Apart from recent and historical evidence to the contrary[0;1], one has to expect that every member of the G20 group is doing the same against everyone else - and has also been doing so for decades. Perhaps more importantly, you have to assume that every intelligence agency in that same group are constantly (re)compromising and extending their foothold in their peers' communications systems as much as they can.

From a national security perspective, to refrain from doing so would be irresponsible. That said...

> There's ample evidence that the PRC does this, and has been doing this, for decades

This is also true. The approach taken by China was brutally effective: in order to allow foreign investment into China, the investor company had to accept terms that started with Technology Transfer programs.[2;3] For a Western company, ongoing access to relatively cheap and educated labour, in addition to a market of a billion+ potential customers, the short term tradeoffs were each seen individually profitable enough to compromise on their longer term sustainability. After all, it made the graphs go up.

The technologies that the companies chose to keep out of China were then the juicier, self-selected targets for pure industrial espionage.

The way I see it, we're slightly more than a decade away from reintroduction of internment camps. One of the G20 players is going to overstep the invisible boundaries, in a game where the rules are constantly rewritten. The result will be an inevitable knee-jerk reaction, propped up by the already visibly rising nationalistic and xenophobic fervour.

We are entering the age of the next round of the Great Game, this one fit for the 21s century, for the control of all six continents.[4]

0: https://www.mediapart.fr/en/journal/france/290615/revealed-m...

1: https://www.windpowermonthly.com/article/960011/trans-atlant...

2: https://www.uscc.gov/research/how-chinese-companies-facilita...

3: https://www.csis.org/analysis/rethinking-technology-transfer...

4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Game
Far more often than not, businesses have compromised on their principles until there was nothing left of them. The exceptions prove the rule. Perhaps people have principles, but they rarely apply them at work, and if so they are swiftly replaced by more pliable employees.
Changes are in the release notes: https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/tag/4.0b1
Yep. Along the same lines. This one is even simpler, though, as it requires only a single integer CPU instruction (and the simplest of all instructions too).

If you want full precision, you need to do three Newton-Raphson iterations after the initial approximation. One iteration is:

y = y * (2.0F - x * y);
Musk supports and encourages and endorses the Chinese government.

Musk is keen on criticizing many governments, domestic and foreign.

Can you find for me a single criticism of the Chinese government from Musk? I'd like to see it.
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It’s unfortunate if you expect people to vote for anything disruptive to their own healthcare to fix it.
This is the first stackexchange answer that I see that starts with accomplishments like a essay.
I'm curious what the truth is regarding the number and character
of brick-and-mortar healthcare facilities in the US: too many?
too few? Because it looks like this company was opening physical
clinics.

Services are unevenly distributed and I wouldn't say there's too many providers in urban areas. Rural areas are underserved though (off the top of my head I can think of a movie and a TV series whose premise is rooted in lack of rural care).

Even within urban areas care is uneven. Hospitals are concentrated in the more wealthy parts of San Francisco and the poorer (e.g. southeastern) parts see sparse coverage. One of the big points of contention when Sutter Health bought out St Luke's hospital in SF was that Sutter wanted to transition from primary care to more profitable specialties. This would've left the neighborhood bereft of primary care.

In more rural areas you'll find that funding is a political football. As that funding wanes so does the level of care. On top of that the post-Roe v Wade environment encourages some folks to migrate towards urban areas in more "permissive" states.

In terms of too much urban coverage. When I needed an ultrasound through UCSF I had to book it out months in advance. It's not clear to me that there is a ton of duplication there — more the point if I'd looked elsewhere I would've had to figure out what was/wasn't in network with my insurance provider. Last I looked Kaiser has a grand total of eight urgent care clinics in the Bay Area. There are nine counties in the Bay Area. That's efficient from a business standpoint but leaves plenty of customers out in the cold as Kaiser covers out-of-network services in very limited circumstances. Likewise, try to find a GP that accepts insurance and is taking new patience. When I checked eons ago UCSF had a nearly year long wait.
The model has taken the input passages from its training data and tokenised it into weights. Don't humanise it by saying it has "remembered" anything. It does not and cannot remember sequences.

Yes, if you reduce temperature to zero and set the same random seed, you should get the same output tokens for a given set of input tokens.

However, there is no guarantee the output for a given seed will be the correct expected output.

For example, there logically must be a model and seed where providing the lord's prayer as input for completion produces a Metallica song as output, because that's a viable set of input tokens: https://genius.com/Metallica-enter-sandman-lyrics

That seed is no more or less valid than any other seed which completes the actual lord's prayer or which provides something completely different. All those seeds are just predicting their next token.

If people want that sort of exact reliable retrieval of sequences, and for the sequences to be "correct", then an LLM is the wrong tool for the job.
Here's a detailed 17 min video presentation of the approach, from SIGGRAPH Asia 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qa5iWdfNKg

Very fun stuff if you work with both digital (additive) and physical (subtractive) colors.
> This means that if you have a new knowledge base for llms it should be useful for humans too. There should be a lot of cross pollination between these tools.

This is realistic but hence going to be unpopular unfortunately, because people expect magic / want zero effort.
Does it in this case?
And, he is allowed to play again. Wonder if the WTT bulges too
Apple has maintained lockdown mode and sent out regular notifications. It's just not announced publicly.
and LLMs are useful for humanity how?
No, because none of those things involve creating a copy on a computer which will then be regurgitated w/o acknowledgement of what went before, and w/o any sort of compensation to the previous rights bearer.

Time was if a person read multiple books to write a new text, they either purchased them, or borrowed them from a library which had purchased them, and then acknowledged them in a footnote or reference section.

At least one author noted that there was a concern that writing would lead to a diminishment of human memory/loss of oral tradition (Louis L'Amour in _The Walking Drum_).
They don't only collect, they also share this data online to interested parties, unprotected. With full name and email.
Are you sure they were confused people? More probable explanation is that they made typos while entering their email.

The alternative explanation, that they roitinely use [your name].[your last name]@gmail.com as their email, and don't realize that it never works is... unlikely IMO.
There're more options, but those require multiple nation states to work together in a conspiracy (everyone in the know) and all others to be incompetent. Given just publicly known facts and Occam's razor…
Health insurance is undisruptable

Medical practices that may charge an annual fee but don't accept insurance — so-called concierge care are a thing. Not accepting insurance means you can operate with a significantly smaller support staff. Patients with a PPO style insurance plan may even have some of the expenses covered.
This is what happens when you dont control the machine you purchase. Stallman have warned much of this, but it is often on deaf ears, because consumers' behaviour don't change.
A lens is a BIG part of the final image you get. So much so that the common advice in most photography forums is that within a price gap, buy the best lens you can find and an okay camera. Camera tech, especially in large dedicated full-frame and APS-C units, has plateaued since 2018, and most cameras from that period take exceptionally good pictures, even by today's standards. Thus, lens availability, price, and quality, as well as AF tracking, are what fundamentally differentiate modern cameras.

EDIT: I got pulled into the discussion without reading the article. The lens is for industrial uses.
But what if Google changes the TOS for YouTube and puts Mr. Beast out of business? Should that guy just retire and be happy with what he got?
Contact the moderators (link in footer). YC companies posting a job ad have a guaranteed spot on the frontpage, users cannot comment. It's probably a YC internal form or system you'd need to use.
The US isn't the only possible model for states to cooperate as part of a larger entity. There are many examples of federations with little fiscal transfers - which are also highly successful - Switzerland is an extreme example.
> ... Google up to 2022 where for more than a decade nothing else came close in value prop. Maybe X now has an even better model with more investment ...

I was very confused at this point because I haven't really seen X as a competitor to Google's ad business, at least not in investment and value prop... Then I saw you were using X as a variable...
> But only metaphorically the equivalent, as the maximum downside is much worse than that.

Maybe I'm a glass-half-full sort of guy, but everyone dying because we failed to reverse man-made climate change doesn't seem strictly better than everyone dying due to rogue AI
Where are you? Surprisingly that's jurisdiction dependent and it's often not.
The idea that you're driving here, that Israel is some kind of expansionist "empire", is, frankly, ridiculous. Have you ever actually looked at a map of the middle east? Israel makes up 0.1% of the ME. Egypt is 46 times the size of Israel. If you look at a map of the ME, Israel is barely a dot on there.

Talking about Israel, the 150th country in the world in size, in the same breath as China, Russia and the US - five of the largest countries in the world, is very weird.
That's true. From a technical standpoint a closer example would be Jac Goudsmit's Propeddle project, or its predecessor, the Propeller-6502 hybrid made by Dennis Ferron. There's actually a long tradition of using the Propeller as the equivalent of custom silicon in such projects before people started doing the same with ARM.

I think the only thing that really holds the original Propeller back in such projects is that while the Propeller is fast, it's going to take a few cycles to interface the 6502 bus whatever you do. The Propeller runs at 20 MIPS per cog, which can easily bit-bang the bus when the 6502's running at 1 megahertz or so. But if the 6502 is running at 16 megahertz then it's not going to be able to keep up without some external decoding logic and throwing in a wait state via the 6502 RDY pin.

The newer Propeller 2 would have no such constraints, but it's also a more complex chip that you can't get in a 40-pin DIP.
You know they contain rechargeable batteries but are just missing the charging port and a few tiny chips?
Apple and others already scan peoples pictures/videos for this stuff, so your argument can be applied to what it is now.

Apples suggestion would have meant your data would be more protected as even they would not have been able to unencrypt your data.
Tenders very often require prior history and experience to evaluate quality, ability or plain moral suitability. In a more publicly visible industry you see this, where a given banker or bank cannot get a license for some operations, Revolut for example.
So we have cookie consent banners for web sites but in a car the manufacturer can just steal all the data they want…
Do you take "Where is Jack Ma" as kind of criticism? I don't remember anything besides this indeed.
Oh no. That’s the biggest reason why I just bought another ThinkPad instead of a comparable other brand.
> There was nothing about what should happen if "leave" won.

It was in the question: leaving the EU. Leaving was what happened, and it wasn't particularly mysterious or complex.

> The referendum should have been for the UK to prepare a detailed plan for leaving the Union and then have a referendum on whether or not to implement that plan.

So they could rig the second? No, the EU wouldn't have agreed to any negotiations of the form "we might do it or we might not", and it would simply have pushed them to play even more hardball than they did (which in the end turned out to involve a lot of bluffing, many of their supposed red lines were crossed after the UK actually left).
I think what will happen with that is "performance shops" will start jailbreaking cars. You can already unlock additional power in your ECU by going stage I, II or III with custom and reputable ECU modders and the car feels completely different. It's a matter of time before ECU devs add going around subscription limitations, I think.
Fun fact: one of these Greenland Danes created PHP.
EU is also quite involved by making sure that a car can’t simply be a car anymore but needs a lot of complex systems that may ore may not work as intended, like remote capabilities etc.
> [citation needed]

It is actually detailed in Apples paper. Also:

https://www.interpol.int/en/Crimes/Crimes-against-children/I...

It works by generating a hash on known materials. Those hashes are shared with other companies so they can find that material without having to see the horrific stuff. The chance of a hash collision was also detailed in the paper which is so low to be non-existent. Even if a clash occurs a human still reviews the materials, and it normally needs a couple of hits to trigger an audit (again according to apples paper on it).

> I know someone whose MS account was permabanned because they had photos of their own kid in the bathtub

So you ask me for a citation and then give me anecdotal evidence?

Even if that happened it has nothing to do with CSAM.
That is an artificial problem created by the EU's structure and ideology though. There's no reason collaboration between nations must be funneled through an organization that sees itself as an alternate government, and which likes to present everything as all-or-nothing. There could easily be independent agreements on independent topics which would avoid such issues, but this would not meet the ideological goals of the EU to replace the existing nation states and governments, so they don't do it.
> How can we develop anything that will still stand in 12 months time?

The pace at which things are moving, likely none. You will have to keep making changes as and when you see newer things. One thing in your favor (arguably) is that every technique is very dependent on the dataset and problem you are solving. So, if you do not have the latest one implemented, you would be okay, as long as your evals and metrics are good. So, if this helps, skip the details, understand the basics, and go for your own implementation. One thing to look out for is new SOTA LLM releases, and the jumps in capability. Eg: 4o did not announce it, but they started doing very well on vision. (GPT-4 was okay, 4o is empirically quite better). These things help when you update your pipeline.
Rules and laws made by whom?
Well, besides Vietnam, Cambodia, Nicaragua, Philippines, Zaire, Guatemala, Indonesia, South Africa, Afghanistan..
I have found that this is the case for really good people, but if you dont have a degree and dont have much experience or expertise yet then this is a great way to totally destroy your confidence
Zuckerberg: 'Open Source AI Is the Path Forward'
Is there such a thing as "private, interactive databases" for SaaS's
So i've been building a product and my clients really hate the idea that their code is stored on my database (unencrypted). The problem is that I need to process the data in the background often and thus I cannot store it end-to-end encrypted. Is there any service that allows you to deploy some sort of database that only the client accesses and at the same time allows me to process it somehow maybe via apis?
I have been building something like this for myself. Is there a room for a paid software, and would you be willing to pay for something like that?
Getting any legacy OS to run on modern hardware is very hard. For example, in my case, BeOS has no EFI boot capability, has a serious RAM restriction, doesn't really like anything past a P4, and has no drivers for anything but legacy hardware (like, no modern storage drivers - IDE only, no SATA unless there is legacy BIOS emulation.) A lot of this is able to be worked around with various hacks, but with 86Box, it will run the OS as is it was on the actual hardware, so it just makes it a no brainer. You can then also use it to emulate old PC hardware on other processor architectures - like ARM.
> because apparently these services have hashes for more than just "the worst of the worst stuff" or whatever.

Do you have a citation for that as well? I linked you what CSAM is. Where are you getting your information from?
Thank you for posting this, I never saw this before. This is seriously impressive, and it would make a nice screensaver.
I would expect a big photo with an ok resolution including inside an area of much higher resolution (aka teleobjective part). That special area can be cropped later to obtain a much bigger photo with all the detail than a tele would bring.
Not at all. Blink according to themselves is:

> blink is a virtual machine that runs x86-64-linux programs on different operating systems and hardware architectures.

Where 86Box is, according to themselves:

> 86Box is a low level x86 emulator that runs older operating systems and software designed for IBM PC systems and compatibles from 1981 through fairly recent system designs based on the PCI bus.
I suggest you read “The Kindly Ones” by Littell. Or, for a smaller investment of time, “Just Revenge" by Dershowitz.

Putin is not even on the same axis as Hitler in terms of evil. I can only take your words to mean that you have no idea who Hitler was - making you, ironically, much closer to a Chamberlain than a Churchill.

The idea that intelligent people like you can draw such conclusions makes me unspeakably sad.

It reminds me of a passage in Stefan Zweig’s “The World of Yesterday” in which he is shocked to see how, weeks before WWI, peasants in a French village cinema turn into a war hungry mob the moment the German Kaiser appears on the screen.

Quote:

> At the moment when Kaiser Wilhelm appeared in the picture a storm of whistling and stamping broke out entirely spontaneously in the dark hall. Everyone was shouting and whistling, men, women and children all jeering as if they had been personally insulted. For a second the kindly people of Tours, who knew nothing about the world beyond what was in their newspapers, were out of their minds. I was horrified, deeply horrified. For I felt how far the poisoning of minds must have gone, after years and years of hate propaganda, if even here in a small provincial city the guileless citizens and soldiers had been roused to fury against the Kaiser and Germany—such fury that even a brief glimpse on the screen could provoke such an outburst. It was only a second, a single second. All was forgotten once other pictures were shown. The audience laughed heartily at the comedy that now followed, slapping their knees loudly with delight. Only a second, yes, but it showed me how easy it could be to whip up bad feeling on both sides at a moment of serious crisis, in spite of all attempts to restore understanding, in spite of our own efforts.

> The entire evening was spoilt for me. I couldn’t sleep. If it had happened in Paris, it would have made me just as uneasy, but it would not have shaken me so much. However, seeing how far hatred had eaten into the kindly, simple people here in the depths of the provinces made me shudder.
Are you sure? I thought the trains were part of of Dolneslaska which means local government, not central one. As far as I know there were no voivodeship changes.

I think the lack of traction is endemic and happens regardless of current political power. This is because one of the issues they complain about was how hard was it to explain to journalists. Journalists did not get it and neither did the people. Even the Pegasus affair did not go far with the current legislature.
In a more dishonest note, they should have pulled a Russian conspiracy theory on it and it suddenly would be all over the news. As it was done on home turf it just is not so serious. Just look at how the Americans do with the Chinese, there might even be nothing but it is taken seriously.